the latest news on the week's top stories gaza militants are celebrating what they call victory after israel's short of invading eight days of bombing. yet again as violent protests over the president's grab power continues for a third day. leaders fail to agree on a trillion euro budget after rounds of agonizing talks with further discussion show for next year. citizens in spain's wealthiest region head to the polls for parliamentary election driven by strong sentiments of separatism.

but a look back at the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly. recovering from the israeli bombing campaign that ended this week thanks to an egyptian brokered truce one hundred sixty eight palestinians were killed around half of them civilians militant rocket fire also claimed the lives of six israelis despite those numbers have mass claims it came out the winner and some israelis now say the government has failed them as reports. alyssa and rachel are packing for the u.s. a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave afghanistan very anxious living on their like knowing that at any moment the sirens right off i may have to go into a bomb shelter and like it's being scared by public transportation and staff.

the streets of tel aviv are a far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that israel finished the operation just so and i think to finish it very soon i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have a very good start and i think that if we would have continued we could have achieved a. better result from it's i do think that we could have put some more pressure oh and the organization of hamas. would probably. keep us from further rocket attacks in the future i hope. the government has good reason to finish it now many military experts and commentators believe the

ceasefire was a strategic victory for hamas for two hours after officially came into force rocket fire from gaza continued it seems that the israeli government has given in to some of the demands of hamas and has made an agreement with a terror organization i think a lot of our lives have been crossed among the disappointed i viewed friedman a lone protester on television campus he's frustrated his army didn't into gaza and was one of the first to call his officer to volunteer it's important for our safety for our. so civilians safety and that's what we should do against the i'm prepared to die for my country any day any time. but tel aviv insists its operation was a success enabling it to destroy a significant portion of the masses infrastructure hundreds of rocket launchers and dozens of smuggling tunnels by believe that the ceasefire in the day was just a means to an end and the end was peace and quiet however it came about is less

important as the results and result hopefully will be peace and quiet a return to normalcy for israelis and also innocent palestinians on the other side of the border but hamas claims tel aviv capitulated to its demands especially by agreeing to ease its blockade on gaza the group also showed its military prowess sending rockets for the first time from gaza to jerusalem and later to tel aviv capabilities that have made hamas a real hero of the palestinian resistance the conflict also managed to silence the more moderate palestinian government of mahmoud abbas which is why some are pointing out that israel has sent a very dangerous message to the arab world if you want to get something from israel you have to go to war policy r.t. tel aviv. international human rights watch dogs and now investigating the conflict for war crimes militant rockets targeted israeli cities killing several civilians bottle of eva's been condemned by some observers for causing massive collateral

damage the filmmaker harry fear was inside gaza throughout the bombing. gasser israel's military operation pillar of cloud has officially ended it started with the assassination of a senior hamas commander. buried here. more than one thousand two hundred palestinians were wounded overwhelmingly children and women and over one hundred sixty seven were killed half of them civilians including journalists israel says when it targeted the top and eleventh floor of this the show our history building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications and then jihad six when it struck the al could t.v. office just below here. at exactly one fifty three on sunday the occupying forces started bombing our office the satellite channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building and the three rockets hit us my colleagues and i was wounded and one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number

of journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appeared to be deliberately assassinated. on monday israel called major local news agencies ordering them to evacuate their premises it then targeted a computer center belonging to the al aksa t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting interplays killing two and injuring several stars this is what's left of the second floor of the building in central gaza city reporters without borders says that this building is known in gaza as the reporter's building. the targeting of any journalist or civilian and international law is a war crime and war reporting is explicitly protected under international humanitarian law the next day israel targeted a press car carrying two al aksa t.v. cameraman they burned to death i got a number and i got in yesterday near our home

a car with a press logo drove past with two young men inside all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car and those inside were killed we pulled one of them out in pieces but couldn't get to the other one he was literally on fire of course it was the press but what else can you say. and i'll could see are the most popular t.v. stations in palestine israel says they're not legitimate journalistic enterprises and that they're associated with the islamic jihad group and the quote hamas terror organization. only had a camera where is the press was the european press with the talk of democracy these crimes are being committed against women and children all of this democracy is a sham and israel targeted media towers including the one in which our sister channels office is housed no r.t. journalist was injured the targeted journalists according to israeli spokes persons

neither journalists nor civilians at all and therefore journalists are worried the detroit cities massacres perpetrated by the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel says the. bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out infrastructure personnel and capacity gazan reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting that side of the story carry fear for r.t. gaza. despite the number of civilian deaths israel maintains the bombing of gaza was highly accurate this week my colleague kevin bohn interviewed an israeli official who placed all the blame for the collateral damage on and the us. the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it running around the south from bomb shelter to bomb shelter dodging rockets hearing the cries of israeli civilians and the cries in the wells of the air raid siren when we see the graphic footage of

dead children being pulled out dug out of collapsed buildings do you maintain that the deaths. of israel and israeli airstrikes are the fault of the mass. i can tell you genuinely generally breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side as i said we mourn every loss of life hamas on the other hand celebrating and they are putting their own civilians in danger i cannot tell you how much we desire quiet how much we desire true peace and calm in this region when we facing an enemy that is guilty of this double war crime whereby they hotly to own civilians while shooting at our civilians for over a decade now we are in this predicament that however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath their civilian population there will be collateral damage. to egypt now on the third consecutive

day of clashes policing carra have fired tear gas at crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged him to renounce the decision the opposition is valid to fight what it calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and they're staging a sit in that car is to his square prison most of them has defended the mood saying it's intended to protect the revolution but paid his way to power after the ousting of hosni mubarak and his latest comments the leaders stressed his new powers of temporary lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine says egypt's political future is now being put to the test but i think president morsi is now on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile and delicate this whole movement that was launched a couple years ago for democracy i sometimes say so-called democracy because

they're not really giving democratic rights to the people and that's that people aren't there to serve the government and also the people are actually raising their standard of living i think morsi the president has made some kind of arrangement with the military a few months ago i think he's also had strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through these thirty to more to his time until the people are given real economics to be given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations pummeled by police first on the now in the morsi it's not going to stop we actually have a real power for the future of the country. this week european union leaders failed to reach a deal after days of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels most e.u. members supported an increase in the budget while some including britain call for

cuts claiming that in a time of austerity nations don't have money to spare. reports. we're here at the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight european leaders osama failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone budget that would take us from twenty four to twenty twenty that person very much wanted to be seen as leading the way in calling for the cuts indeed in the lead up to the negotiations there was a lot of concern that we'd see an isolated from the other twenty six countries. with the mediator these negotiations he stepped up to take personal side and unlikely home of support perhaps she was very much adamant that person wouldn't be left to fight this alone an exercise that as we saw happening in two thousand and

eleven and so we saw those other day in a country getting behind britain in this now at the end of it the prime minister said the person didn't get a deal but they didn't get an unacceptable deal but of course that leaves us exactly where we started with nothing happening and so those countries are going to be left to continue the negotiations to try and hammer out some form of a deal that's acceptable to everyone else some of the we're going to see this budget battle continuing now into the new year. to come the sound. of separatism people of spain's comes along you go to choose parliament so many people like to be independents more after this short break stay with us.

british lived a minister lynne featherstone so the women have babies it allows men to. pass them up on the letter to power essentially children are set back for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave or would that be paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of her view but my question is featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up the ladder to buy a big car replace your shortcomings is a very male way of judging success are women who choose to have families failures or at least unsuccessful in your book even as a man i know that my pocket is really empty after having the first of hopefully many kids but i don't see our child as a financial setback keeping me from buying an x. box guess what success is relative to the goal and maybe a corporate boardroom vision of success isn't for everyone women who have kids are

failures in my opinion but then again that's just my opinion. also.

believe if social change. will be the afghan. people in. afghanistan it's true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. today.

growing threat to european unity is the talk of separatism. issues of independence and. spain's richest region the main contributor to the country's economy. is in. well people are voting today in an election which could represent a step towards any final breakup of spain and it is because the cattle i am president are the masses promised to hold a referendum on independence from spain it is convergence and union party actually wins and that is something that is striking a chord with many cattle lands the region itself a rich pretty wealthy it has an economy the size of portugal's but it pays far more in taxes to the spanish government that actually receives back in terms of investment from from madrid and that is something that annoys some people here

unemployment is at around twenty five percent and also people are having to endure tough austerity measures at the moment but nothing is a done deal because after mass does need to record an absolute majority in order to be able to push through this referendum otherwise he would be forced to form some sort of coalition there is a sticking point too in that the referendum is actually against the spanish constitution and the spanish prime minister. has said he will fight it with some elements of the spanish media are actually saying that after mass could find himself arrested so nothing is clear cut at the moment and even though opinion polls do suggest that the majority of people are in favor of independence there is a strong lobby who are against separatism and their arguments are based on the economy too they say that if catalonia is forced withdraw from spain it would businesses here would lose the spanish market but they could also lose the european union market because catalonia they fear could be forced to drop out of the e.u.

and then reapply for membership which could be a long and lengthy process of the many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans have had to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening. and pollutes i spoke to a little earlier she's an economist at university barcelona believes that catalonia if allowed will be a successful addition to the e.u. . the poor show that the majority of catalan population was independents let's see what's the result of this election which is not a referendum but a general election to the catalan parliament up to now the turnout has increased by four point five percent with respect to the last elections world of globalisation of open markets it is more likely that small countries don't need to belong to a larger domestic market in order to exported schools they belong to the market or

regional bloc and from a fiscal point of view catalonia is very mistreated by say the spanish government of each europe it in taxes back at their own citizens and businesses in the last twenty years only fifty cents has been spent in catalonia so it makes a lot of sense catalonia has a g.d.p. per capita. than that of denmark and the european union is made up of a lot of countries that era is more or than in that have up operations north than ten million an abbott and so it is normal that you have to just stick to our to our local national government that is close to your preferences and then you belong to the latter unity secular or unity. syrian rebels looking to overthrow president assad to receive syria's backing this week european union welcomed the new syrian

opposition group the national coalition as the legitimate representative of the country's people although e.u. ministers stopped short of official diplomatic recognition which must be decided by each member state france and turkey with the first person to give the new rebel alliance a stamp of approval with britain following suit soon after turkey is now pushing for nato to deploy patriot missiles along its border with syria to defend itself russia and iran are among the countries strongly opposing the move seeing it as a possible first step towards a no fly zone and foreign boots on the ground political activists talk to you as an adult i think if nato grants turkey's request it would plunge the region deeper into chaos. deploying such missiles is not really going to be for defensive measure what do they need to defend against at least turkey has an army and they can defend against more time for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure a no fly zone area and we've been hearing country especially britain and france

advocating such intervention recently we've been talking about limited intervention how about how how. comprehensive and how and all out war style this is going to be i think it is not going it's not going to be a war style it will be a war of attrition it's not going to threaten the syrian government of a sudden intervention they know very well that this is going to ignite a. response from the syrian side. a lot of chaos and the region. and staying with syria activists there say rebels have captured a helicopter base on the outskirts of the capital damascus at least fifteen fighters and eight government troops were killed in the fighting leading. to the takeover recently rebel militias have concentrated on military bases across syria hoping to stop the regime from using them on thursday they took over an artillery

outpost in the oil rich eastern province near iraq. brings up to date for the moment all news in about thirty five minutes from now in the meantime our special report exposes the reality of women in afghanistan deprived of any rights or prospects by harsh religious and social traditions as our special report after a short break. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged confort but they joy is a while these guaranteed guineas a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. by going off the list below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the

water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper failed. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small weaver this sort of bears are they have a very good sense of flow will be able to think i will have to keep an aisle when directed at. them and also told i could be paying for it so we won't go to shell but before required. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away but they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the

mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears peanuts another local resident who hates his peace being disturbed here is the howlers eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters ignace only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and seagulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here the mara island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no security here it would be the reason why you have tons of people coming here not just to get some for me on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get

your piece of bread there is nothing really all you can fly on oprah did you have to rely on yourself to back. up to be the bad. maybe the wild life here is the lack of says it is this for the better but when you stand on top of this you just can't help wanting to share the beauty. churchmen dollars a little thank you. and kathy as chalo of mossad take italian i should look up and involve them in joey jackson michigan better than me about are all miles over yet already other version i get it

to him so i. not only be this far away and it does that out of. pain but for years on enjoyment. they have two schools they have that i too would works with what's men's and the mystery is one that woman is asian enjoys i'm sure i'm i'm supposed to say there

were many factories. and fell there were still there were two alike and even universities because this is freedoms. that no one respects lozier. at all then there should. be a poem for their own good for their protection of the thrill of the world a bunch of. if women don't wear their headscarf they will be harassed raped injured and humiliated. there is no longer move the gun is the low we have the woman in front of it we have the woman in media we have the woman in the universe this we have the woman in the government we have minister of the state can you imagine that this that that suspect that they have let the out . that way they exchange a dot but that doc just put out of their plan to have

a funny duck and played it that right now. nine percent of. females is good to university woman out of working buy into it by go out a man in dixie and invariably they do this is so every two women. they are independent economy independent they have some salary this is maybe one or two passing no more most of them when we say that the situation of women in afghanistan has improved you can only take into consideration places such as harrow to missouri sharif and kabul. in the provinces in the villages the situation hasn't changed. women are still victims of violence and rape.